Jeremiah 18:17
Jeremiah chapter 18 · verse 17 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
KJV
King James Version · 1611I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will shew them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.
Context
v.16to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing; every one that passeth thereby shall be astonished, and shake his head.
v.17This passage
v.18Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, At the time when their foot shall slide: For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
- Proverbs 7:25
Let not thy heart decline to her ways; Go not astray in her paths.
- Deuteronomy 28:64
And Jehovah will scatter thee among all peoples, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers, even wood and stone.
- Jeremiah 46:21
Also her hired men in the midst of her are like calves of the stall; for they also are turned back, they are fled away together, they did not stand: for the day of their calamity is come upon them, the time of their visitation.
- Psalms 48:7
With the east wind Thou breakest the ships of Tarshish.
- Jeremiah 2:27
who say to a stock, Thou art my father; and to a stone, Thou hast brought me forth: for they have turned their back unto me, and not their face; but in the time of their trouble they will say, Arise, and save us.